Ice T Quotes

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Ice T

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 16, 1958

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

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A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.

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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.

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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

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I have to grow with my audience.

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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

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An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

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You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

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I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.

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I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.

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If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

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Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

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I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.

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I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

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I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived.

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I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!

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